‘The Monash Soviet’ and Israel: A case study of how the Australian campus far left lost its way after the...
By Philip Mendes
For a half century, for good and for ill, Western universities have been incubating world views which go...
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June 2021
Against Solutionism, Against Nowism: For ‘the Longer, Shorter Path’ | An interview with Moshe Ya'alon
By Moshe Ya'alon
Former Israeli Minister of Defence Lieutenant General (Ret.) Moshe ‘Bogie’ Ya'alon was born in Kiryat Haim in 1950...
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June 2021
The Three Best Books on Antisemitism, recommended by Dave Rich
By Dave Rich
Fathom is inviting experts to select their three favourite books about a subject. The series began with Sara...
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June 2021
Book Review | Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities
By Eve Garrard
Academic freedom is the liberty which academics have, within the confines of the law, to question and test...
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June 2021
My Israeli Music: Hamutal Gouri
By Hamutal Gouri
Hamutal Gouri is the former executive director of the Dafna Fund, a feminist fund working to promote women's organisations in Israel. She...
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June 2021
Opinion | Iran now controls three borders with Israel. Hamas’s missile war was a foretaste of what Tehran intends next
By Kyle Orton
Israel has been thwarting Iran’s global terrorist operations but has been less successful closer to home. The IRGC...
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June 2021
Naftali Bennett and Israel’s (divided) National Religious Community: A Guide for the Perplexed
By Calev Ben-Dor
The new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is a ‘religious-Zionist’. But what does that mean and why has...
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June 2021
My Israeli Music: Michael Wegier
By Michael Wegier
In a new Fathom series, we invite guests to select their favourite Israeli music and tell us a little about...
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June 2021
Opinion | The UK and EU should recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel — and Palestine
By Liam Hoare
In April 1949, what was then the New Statesman and Nation — at the time aligned with the...
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June 2021
Britain and Israel in 1948: A note in response to Ronnie Fraser
By Natan Aridan
In March 2021 Fathom published ‘The Rockiest of Starts: Anglo-Israeli Relations 1948-1950’ by Natan Aridan, editor of Israel...
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June 2021
Gazan Futures | After Operation Guardians of the Wall
By Amos Yadlin
Amos Yadlin discusses the recent asymmetric conflict between Israel and Hamas, providing five insights about the operation and...
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June 2021
Gazan Futures | Prospects of a long-term armistice or hudna with Hamas
By Ehud Yaari
Ehud Yaari is an expert on Middle Eastern affairs. He is the author of eight books on the...
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June 2021
Gazan Futures | Five ways to strengthen the Palestinian Authority and facilitate its return to Gaza
By Celine Touboul
Celine Touboul is the co-Executive Director of the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), an Israeli policy-planning think-tank. Celine leads...
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June 2021
The Danger of Greater Israel
By Michael Walzer
In this urgent essay, written before the new Israeli coalition government was agreed, but with great relevance to...
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June 2021
Opinion | A desire to remove Netanyahu has created a coalition stretching from Naftali Bennett to Mansor Abbas. Can it...
By Calev Ben-Dor
The (four-time) failure of the right wing and ultra-Orthodox parties to garner 61 seats, the steady erosion of...
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June 2021
Peter Beinart and Palestinian Refugee ‘Return’: A Critique
By Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf
Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf are the authors of The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the...
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June 2021
Book Review| The CIA War in Kurdistan: The Untold Story of the Northern Front in the Iraq War
By Paul Iddon
Sam Faddis's recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to...
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June 2021
How to Defeat Hamas
By Toby Greene
Toby Greene argues that military tools are not enough. What’s needed is a long-term vision for sustainable political...
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June 2021
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